7.—(1) This regulation applies where a litter authority has given a person a penalty notice and the person has not paid the fixed penalty in full within the fixed penalty payment period.
(2) The litter authority may recover any unpaid amount of the fixed penalty (being the increased amount referred to in regulation 6(3)) and any related costs awarded by an adjudicator—
(a)as a civil debt, or
(b)as if payable under a county court order, if the county court so orders.
(3) In paragraph (2), “costs awarded by an adjudicator” means the costs and expenses which are required to be paid to the litter authority under an order under paragraph 13 of the Schedule to the RUCS Regulations 2013 as it applies to these Regulations by virtue of regulation 19.